Dimitris Andrikopoulos received a Diploma in Viola Performance as well as the Counterpoint Diploma in Athens in 1992 and received the Solo Diploma from the Maastricht Music Academy under the supervision of H.Guittard in 1998. He continued his postgraduate studies with specialization in 20th Century Chamber Music and also received a Composition Diploma at the at Rotterdam’s Academy of Music and Dance with K. de Vries. Since 2013, Dmitris is a Doctor of Composition (PhD) from the University of Birmingham. 
As a composer he has collaborated with various ensembles, orchestras and performers, some being the Athens State Orchestra, Athens Municipal Orchestra, Orchestra National de Lorraine, Nederlands Ballet Orkest, Theater Group Walpurgis, Dance Studio Arabesque, and many others. 
Dimitris won various awards for his works; in the COMPASS Award (Center for Composition and Associated Studies) of the University of Birmingham (2010) for his work “Metamorphoses I” and the ITEA / Harvey Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition (2012) for his work “Curse I” for Double Bass, Toumba and Bayan. Since September 2004, Dimitris has been teaching  Composition and composition related subjects at the Superior School of Music, Arts and Performance- part of the Polytechnic of Porto  (ESMAE-IPP) in Portugal. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the ESMAE-IPP and the Research Center for the Study of Sociology and Music Aesthetics (CESEM) of the Nova Universidade in Lisbon with main research lines on Composition, Algorithmic Composition, Electroacoustic Music and the study of the technique of extending the sound of existing musical instruments of Western music through the possibilities which their combination with new technologies offer.
 In December 2021 he joined the Division of Arts and Humanities of the New York University Abu Dhabi as Visiting Scholar.